I have had considerable experience in teaching, counseling, resolving conflict, researching, and working with youth. I have ran for the office of Dallas County Commissioner in 2020, I have worked as a software trainer, adjunct professor, a court-appointed mediator, and behavior counselor. I spent a short time in 2014 in Brazil doing a faculty research study on the corruption involving the 2014 World Cup.
 

I majored in Journalism (BA) at Stephen F. Austin and Conflict Resolution (MA) at Southern Methodist University. 

I am single. I have a son (Benjamin) who lives with his mother in Brazil.